Wednesday, March 25, 2009

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As he walked out of prison a free man earlier this month, Jessie Rankins barely greeted his wife, exchanging only a few words without kissing or hugging her. He hadn't seen her in 2 1/2 years. It was their fourth wedding anniversary.

"I'll feel better when I see my dog," he said a short time later.

Rankins isn't a household name, but his crime was among the most notorious murders in Chicago history.

Just a scrawny boy in 1994, he and a friend abducted 5-year-old Eric Morse, dangled the screaming boy out a 14th-floor window at a public housing high-rise and dropped him to his death. Eric had refused to steal candy for them, prosecutors said.

The entire article is some bullshit about this piece of garbage and his partner who dropped a child about 140 feet to his death. Think about that. One hundred forty feet straight down into solid earth. That's about 3 seconds of free fall reaching a speed somewhere near 40 meters a second at impact. What wasn't splintered in Eric Morse was pulverized. Some of us here worked in a bunch of those buildings and their twins before they tore them all down. Talk about godforsaken shit holes.

And the story seems to be that we should feel sorry for these two assholes because they were "raised" in prison, can't read, can't hold jobs, and have been in and out of prison in the intervening twenty years due to their choices.

Boo-fucking-hoo.

It would have been a fucking mercy if these two were drowned at birth. And it'd be another fucking blessing if they were both crushed to death by steamrollers.

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What about the sob story of the offender who killed 4 police officers the other day.

The Tribune claimed the man was afraid of returning to jail and that is why he shot those officers.

A man who couldn't find a job but also couldn't find his parole officer's office either because he kept missing the monthly appointments and kept a loaded handgun on his person even though he was a 4 time convicted felon.

Yes, the Tribune was trying to make it sound like this guy had no other choice than to kill these 4 police officers.

CANCEL IT NOW! I am also tired of seeing Obama on the cover everyday as the Sun-Times and Tribune attempt to get saint hood for him.

I had a call of an armed robbery on Larrabee near Oak. We chase the offender into one of the reds, and like a cockaroach, he disappears into the shadows. As we are ready to leave the building the zone tells us that someone is trying to break into an apartment on the 4th floor. As we get there we find that Joey Shithead kicked in the door and was hiding in the bedroom of the apartment. We catch Joey Shithead, but the thing I remember most about this job is that the apartment was immaculate. It was clean and simply, but nicely decorated. The three kids were eating breakfast and I could see mom was a hardworker. Her children were clean and dressed well for school. She was scared out of her mind when he kicked in the door, but she knew this was the Greens and, sadly, this is what happens there. She was so very thankful to us for coming and grabbing this guy. The kids were so polite to us that for a moment I thought I was somewhere else. Grandma told me that her daughter is strict, but loving with the kids and that kids never miss school. As I was leaving, one of the kids said, "Officer, when I get out of school, I want to be a policeman."

Based on what I saw, I found the "exception to the rule" that for whatever reason this family was stuck in the Greens, but determined not to let that define them.

This is the type of story that the Tribune should have covered at one time.

I came from the inner city, but I did not let that define me.

Why the fuck the Tribune will make excuses for such a fuck-up like this I will never know. These assholes have choices. They choose not to learn to read, or do math and sell dope. They choose to drop five year olds off the breezeways in the projects and kill other kids. Jessie Rankins had a choice and it is a choice he made and he made alone. For the Tribune to write such bullshit only enables the other Jessie Rankins in society.

SCC, you are right, boo-fucking-hoo-hoo. And the activists, who live in their ivory towers, don't have a single clue that people like Rankins choose to keep on doing what they are doing because it is the easiest way for them. Why learn when the State of Illinois can take care of them?

I like that fact this headline says cancel tribune subscriptions. But if you go to the top of this blog page there is a award from the Chicagotribune.com for best Chicago blog. Well at least you dont hold any shots, you just keep reloading.

I like think they were writing their obituaries early. They could have ended that article with a prediction that this piece of shit will die during the commission of a robbery or dope deal. He should have been sterilized in the joint to prevent us from having to pay to raise his spawn.

Whatever happened to that girl who was thrown out of robert taylor by animals? You know the one who was held at 51st and wentworth and the lock up keepers let her out? How is that lawsuit going? A friend of mind (JJ) from the airport is being sued for 100 million so he says he will stay on the medical what gives?

Fuck them trib will be gone soon! the only thing good about trib is JOHN KASS! otherwise just a shit rag! Those 2 fucks should of died or at least been shanked to death in prison! Can't read what about the "victim?" Guess he does not count!

I like that fact this headline says cancel tribune subscriptions. But if you go to the top of this blog page there is a award from the Chicagotribune.com for best Chicago blog. Well at least you dont hold any shots, you just keep reloading.

The Tribune gave us the award. And we've been anti-Mainstream Media since day one. It doesn't diminish the recognition they gave and doesn't diminish the fact that they're still the big newspaper in the Midwest. It is what it is.

Same answer to the other poster who decided to call us names and therefore didn't get published. We can agree to disagree with the direction the Tribune is going and still link to their stories and articles. But we have no problem advising people to get if free online.

Screw these two punks. The one dude has 5 kids; all he cared about was seeing his dog. It's dude's own fault he can't read. Once in the joint there are educational programs. I've meet criminals that have come out with GED's, andcollege Degrees. This POS should be eiminated from the planet.

Anonymous said... Whatever happened to that girl who was thrown out of robert taylor by animals? You know the one who was held at 51st and wentworth and the lock up keepers let her out? How is that lawsuit going? A friend of mind (JJ) from the airport is being sued for 100 million so he says he will stay on the medical what gives?

LMAO!!! Are we truly supposed to feel sorry for this douchebag? Really?! Oh how sad, they drive a rusted broke dick buick and live in a shitty house. Waaaaah... His wife aspires to get a job at Hardees! He smokes weed and drinks alcohol to dull the pain!! I almost lost my coffee after that one! And of course his wife would be a fat white chick with his name tattooed on her arm. Good. I'm glad this animal has nightmares every night. If i was so inclined to believe in ghosts I would hope that little Eric Morse haunts him for the rest of his life. You know, an eye for an eye isn't such a bad idea, it would definitely save taxpayers some money.

I grew up with the Trib, as my mom and grandparents were both subscribers. As soon as I moved out on my own, I subscribed. Over the last years I noticed a shift toward an anti-police, pro-illigal alien and very liberal agenda. I cancelled my subscription the day after they endorsed Obama. Shortly after that, I read where the Trib said that they have kept to their economic conservatism, but modified to be socially liberal. I am glad I have gotten rid of the liberal rag, but I hate having no paper to read.

Remember when they were nominated for their series on prosecutural misconduct?

Falisifed numbers, skewed facts and complete lies.

The first and only time (to my knowledge) that a Pultizer prize nominee was rescinded.

Maurice Possley had a lot to do with it as did David Posse, who taught at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.

David had a habit of instructing his pretty 847 area code female students to write letters to offenders, including pictures, and at times WORN PANTIES, and ask for "cooperation" in the testimony that they were so nice enough to send to the inmates.

Crap is exactly what it is. They are making excuses for this piece of garbage who murdered a 5 year old child. And, the retards who buy into this crap are just as bad. He'll throw more people out the window and think nothing of it. The liberals will keep making excuses for this POS(&others like him)they love those criminals. Sooner or later, they'll be the next victim. HA HA HA HA HA HA HAHA

i have a lot of out of town family members, who were from chicago, and recently at a family function I was told that Chicago is the worst for bleeding hearts and that includes california. I have a few years left and I cant wait to leave this state!

The m/f 2 liberals are the true enemies of our society.---------------------------------WITHOUT A DOUBT!!! Clueless sons and daughters of people who fled the city to escape you know who and now are all knowing of race relations and how "people" really are. My partner is mexican and tells me how bad he feels for "my people" because they're so clueless. THEY ARE NOT MY PEOPLE!

Never held a subscription to the slums nor the trib, never bought 1 and dont read the paper at all, only off yahoo,msn,cnn...etc..etc. Fuck these liberal newspapers that only connect to nonauthoritarians and obama for nonsense. God bless the 4 officers and their families my hearts and prayers go out to them. I could go on and on but I have to go. God Bless CPD because we need it.

I locked up the animal many, many times over the years. Also, I am no bleeding heart liberal, but I have news for you, ladies and gentlemen, the system did not just fail these 2 pieces of shit, it failed all of us, each and everyone of us.

Yes, many of us would like to just kill them, chop their heads off or put a live hand grenade down their throats, then walk and get far enough away to still hear the explosion, but not get their blood and guts on our clothes, however, unless they are killed in the commission of another crime or killed while fighting over a cheeseburger, society does not allow us to kill them as a preventive measure so they most likely will be around for a good long while and all that time they will be prone to violence, which is all they know.

Without intensive counseling and job training while these 2 were in the custody of the state, they are doomed to repeat their past, and the sad part is that their future will most likely include a law-abiding citizen(s) as the victim(s)of a heinous act at their hands. They are doomed to robbing, raping, sodomizing, torturing, and killing without remorse, and the most likely victim(s) will be a law abiding loved one(s) of somebody in our society.

Many of you will say, fuck them, kill them, if he bothers me or mine I'll shoot the fucker(s)in the head and nuts, I'll judge them with 6, instead of them getting judged by 12, and on and on, but it is all reactive conduct, not proactive conduct. Your life and the lives of your loved ones that fall victim to these 2, will be unalterably changed forever, in some terrible way or another.

I want to say fuck these 2 mother fuckers, but sadly, the best thing we can do for ourselves, because these two mother fuckers are probably not leaving our earth very soon, is to try and put them on a better road while we can, not because we love them or like them or need them in society or being true to some bleeding-heart agenda, but because we may, and it is only may, keep them from visiting some heinous act on you, me or our loved ones. Sad to say, but nonetheless, true. The system failed us all.

I was literally sick to my stomach when I read that article; I just can't believe that its purpose was to provoke sympathy for a such a terrible person. I don't know what it's like to grow up as the POS in the article, but I do know that my upbringing has not defined me or the choices I made/make in life. I don't believe there's ever been a time where I've said, "I made decision X, because of incident Y." They killed a little boy. For no reason. And then while in prison, raped another boy. There is a word for that behavior:Evil.

I'm scared for the over/under on dates until he/they re-offend. A month?

For all the people who think John Kass is a friend to the police dont know John Kass. He would throw you under the bus the first chance he got. A couple years back some off duty ccsp got into it with some shitbag and his girl near Robbins, the shitbag threw a paintcan at them and fled into the projects. The shitbag had one of his buddies shoot at the ccsp, they returned fire. John Kass wrote several articles about how this poor inacent couple was harrased and shot at by drunken off-duty coppers. At the civil tral a women said she saw the buddy shoot at the coppers and the coppers returned fire. John Kass didnt write one article about this, John kass is no good, fuck him and the trib.

All I can say is that is so typical, sensationalism at it’s best, typical from the reporter who I know about and his great “journalism. Maybe Gary Marx can let these two stand up citizens stay with him, he can take them under his wing and make them fine up standing folks. What do you think Gary…? Yeah I thought so…

Anonymous said... Whatever happened to that girl who was thrown out of robert taylor by animals? You know the one who was held at 51st and wentworth and the lock up keepers let her out? How is that lawsuit going? A friend of mind (JJ) from the airport is being sued for 100 million so he says he will stay on the medical what gives?

3/25/2009 01:02:00 AM

is that not the guy who tried to have relations with a female P.O.? The female was dumped then asked to come back 6 hours later did ellen screw up again? Maybe another fumble by the queen of mean,with no conscience! she be gone soon!

Rankins is an animal, just like his dog....I put more value in the pit bull dog than rankins (and the dog that married him). He states in the interview " Someone getting in my face, saying what you can do to me, that would be your biggest mistake." You would not live too long". This animal will end up back in the can, no doubt about it. He has no logic or reasoning of any kind, and puts no value on human life. All he knows is sit in the box, and wait for the food tray to come.

People who are victims of criminal acts, ie., those who are the wrong people, in the wrong place and at the wrong time, cannot be considered 'innocent' if they have done little to nothing to be as prepared as possible to not be victimized, like not being in that wrong place at that wrong time, and/or not preparing themselves for that time when that wrong place is brought to their doorstep.

People, over the past few generations, have chosen, (or have allowed to be chosen for them), a mentality that is, to put it mildly, retarded.

Exceptionally retarded.

Astronomically retarded.

Unfucking believably retarded.

And the results of this chosen retardation of their individual perspectives has been as predictable as the motions of the heavens.

How can presumably intelligent human beings possibly believe that behaving as sheep and rabbits will, by any stretch of their imaginations, result in their not being treated as sheep and rabbits, by the ever increasing number of two-legged predators, who, assuredly, appreciate, on the part of their prey, this retarded perspective?

I mean, c'mon, how hard is it to recognize the scent of bullshit?

How hard is it to be conscious of the sensation of a hand creeping toward one's pocketbook, or a finger working it's way up one's anus?

Just how often an ass-fucking are the citizen-rabbits and citizen-sheep willing to tolerate, before they consciously choose to no longer remain sheep and rabbits?

It's nice to think that the predators are unlikely to venture into one's territory, but, only a retard would believe that unlikely is the same as impossible.

The essential problem has it's roots in our allowing our children to be taught, by us and by the system called by the oxymoron of 'education', that it is ever truly safe.

It's never safe, not in the absolute sense of the word.

Ever.

And developing a mentality constantly aware of this fact is in no way detrimental to our children or to the adults we help them to become. Quite the contrary, it is essential to their, and our, survival as a species.

There's a reason why this place, this world, this corporeal existence, is not considered to be Heaven.

This private citizen reader is sure Rankins will be in the news again. You can bet on it. One or more of you will be dealing with that POS sooner or later. Maybe it will be when his half brother stabs the asshole in the throat in an argument over ownership of a chicken leg or pork chop in the flat. Thats always a laugh. And as far as the Tribune is concerned, cancelled several years ago. Don't even read it on line. Cancelled Sun-Times too. Sometimes read it on line. Neither of them are worth it. Tipsville to newspapers: don't ever endorse political candidates. You no longer are objective and impartial purveyors of news. You did not lose me to the internet. You lost me when you became politically corrupt and advocated "social justice" over honesty, integrity, hard work and statutory law.

There's a reason why this place, this world, this corporeal existence, is not considered to be Heaven.

3/25/2009 06:22:00 PM

There is a law or rule somewhere that says you cannot drop acid and post to SCC. In future, please comply.

Regardless, you can be as prepared as can be, and the animnal can touch your life at the oddest or most innocent moment of your life, at a moment when you would never figure it could happen or never think it could happen, but happen it can. At your home, at your church, at your doctor's office, at your bank, anywhere, because the animnal is mobile, and travels to inflict misery on the innocent. If you don't believe it, you are a fool and a victim waiting to happen.

‪Anonymous‬ said...For all the people who think John Kass is a friend to the police dont know John Kass. He would throw you under the bus the first chance he got. A couple years back some off duty ccsp got into it with some shitbag and his girl near Robbins, the shitbag threw a paintcan at them and fled into the projects. The shitbag had one of his buddies shoot at the ccsp, they returned fire. John Kass wrote several articles about how this poor inacent couple was harrased and shot at by drunken off-duty coppers. At the civil tral a women said she saw the buddy shoot at the coppers and the coppers returned fire. John Kass didnt write one article about this, John kass is no good, fuck him and the trib.3/25/2009 02:04:00 PM******

These articles John wrote had to do with Sheahan's patronage, you tool.

These CCSP, Lannigan, Remus and others, are political hacks who were so drunk they accidentially drove into the area!

They fired their guns when in fact they were too drunk to walk!

They should have faced prison time!

Had it not been for your relation to Terry Lannigan, Mike Sheahan's old partner, you would have been prosecuted. And oh, this was all after a fundraiser and a drinking festival at Cork and Kerry's.

I like that fact this headline says cancel tribune subscriptions. But if you go to the top of this blog page there is a award from the Chicagotribune.com for best Chicago blog. Well at least you dont hold any shots, you just keep reloading.

3/25/2009 12:35:00 AM

No subscription paid for, for chicagotribune.com. It's free. And best Chicago blog award is on chicagotribune.com, not the dead-tree version of the Trib.

I love how this idiot Rankins ass-raped some kid in youth jail when he was 12. Obviously should not be on the streets. Whatever happened to labotmies? You can tell by the shape of this killer's head that there is something not right about him. Uncurable, unfixable. Just put him to sleep.

Anonymous‬ said...For all the people who think John Kass is a friend to the police dont know John Kass. He would throw you under the bus the first chance he got. A couple years back some off duty ccsp got into it with some shitbag and his girl near Robbins, the shitbag threw a paintcan at them and fled into the projects. The shitbag had one of his buddies shoot at the ccsp, they returned fire. John Kass wrote several articles about how this poor inacent couple was harrased and shot at by drunken off-duty coppers. At the civil tral a women said she saw the buddy shoot at the coppers and the coppers returned fire. John Kass didnt write one article about this, John kass is no good, fuck him and the trib.3/25/2009 02:04:00 PM******These articles John wrote had to do with Sheahan's patronage, you tool. These CCSP, Lannigan, Remus and others, are political hacks who were so drunk they accidentially drove into the area!They fired their guns when in fact they were too drunk to walk!They should have faced prison time!Had it not been for your relation to Terry Lannigan, Mike Sheahan's old partner, you would have been prosecuted. And oh, this was all after a fundraiser and a drinking festival at Cork and Kerry's. Now, go pretend you're the police somewhere else. Political hacks!

---you r right. These are skinny sheehen's people who were meritoursly made ccsp and did nothing while on the job

In "The Bible", it's up to society to read where God says send the murderers to me. All the intensive counseling and job training isn't going to change Rankins one bit. Look at the commuted death row people that Homer pardoned. How many of them wound up back in crime, and in some/most cases wound up beating their wives and kids.?